Female labor force participation varies significantly even among countries with similar levels of economic development. Recent studies have…
Venezuela has seen an unprecedented exodus of people in recent months. In response to a dramatic economic downturn in which inflation is…
Student attendance is critical to educational success, and is increasingly the focus of educators, researchers and policymakers. We report…
America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
This paper is one of the first systematic assessments of ex-felons’ workplace performance. Using FOIA-requested data from the Department of…
Commitment devices impose costs on one's future self for failing to follow through on one's intentions, offer no additional benefit to one'…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…